How To Make Decorating For Valentine’s Day (Or Any Other Time Of Year) Fast And Easy
Use this great idea to make your decorating for Valentine’s Day, or any other time of year, fast and easy!
Do you have a spot in your home is that is your favorite place to decorate for the different seasons and holidays throughout the year? My favorite space is the open shelves in my breakfast area! Why? Well, it’s because they are one of the most visible spots in my home. Located through the wide opening from the family room into the kitchen/breakfast area, these shelves are impossible to miss whenever we’re moving about in our house.
If you caught this previous post, “How To Quickly And Easily Keep Shelves Decorated As The Seasons Change”, then you already know that my mission today is to show you how you can very quickly and easily add seasonal or holiday decorations to any spot in your home.
The secret is to start with a base of basic, mostly neutral items that will allow you to get a whole new look and celebrate any holiday or season with just a few easy decor changes.
Take a look at this side-by-side comparison – a basic winter look is on the left. You can see that by using a mostly neutral background, how easily I was able to only switch out a few things to go from Winter to Valentine’s Day.
I don’t do a ton of decorating for Valentine’s and I don’t have very many Valentine’s Day specific decorations, so I keep them all in a small tub in the place where I store the rest of my decor. All I had to do was to bring that small tub downstairs and pull out what I wanted to use on my farmhouse shelves this year.
Let me explain just how quick and easy it was! Take a closer look at the right side of the shelves. The white casserole dish on the top shelf was replaced with an adorable sitting pillow, I added a cute Valentine’s heart plaque to the second shelf and a wonderful scented Valentine’s candle to the bread board on the bottom.
Get the directions for how I made that cute wreath for under $10 by clicking HERE.
On the left side, I tucked in a larger Valentine’s heart block to the decorations on the top of my sideboard.
You can see that on the rest of the shelves, I simply replaced the white candles on the top shelf with red ones, added Valentine’s themed dishes to both tool boxes and then switched out some of the accessories displayed on the round bread board that the lamp is resting on. So – have I convinced you yet? I challenge you to find a spot in your home where you can put these same decorating principles into practice!
Your shelves look great! I love the Valentine touch! Who doesn’t love hugs and kisses and hearts???
I am so happy that I found your blog! Your ideas and tips are inspiring me as I decorate our new home! Thank you. ♥♥♥
I love how your change your house for different occasions. You give me great decorating inspiration! Thanks for all the wonderful ideas your house is amazing!
What a nice Valentines’ Day vignette! Just enough touches of red and pink without being over the top.
Super cute! I love it! Where did you get the little pink heart tins that are stacked? And also the pink heart dish that is in the wooden basket?
Hi Betsy. The stacked pink hearts are little bowls that I picked up at TJ Maxx a few years ago and the heart bowl in the wooden box is a ceramic one that I painted years and years ago. 😀
Once again, another a great idea. You did such a cute job on everything. I love the black and red you added.
It all looks so cute, especially the mug rack! And those cards are adorable! I have been hunting for some cute cards to send my nieces and nephew, thanks for sharing these!
Love, love, love the cards you selected for your granddaughters. I’ll be looking for them!
Love your blog. It very inspirational to me.
Another great post! Your decorating style proves you don’t have to spend a fortune to make some changes that pack a wallop! It’s a transition that’s simple but effective and easy to change out again and again. Many thanks! I so enjoy reading your posts!
Love the cards for your granddaughters with the sweet necklaces!
Headed to Walgreen’s today – love their Hallmark section. Your shelves look awesome. Thanks for the decorating ideas.
Love your style, I get lots of inspiration from your great ideas. Thank you!
Oops… 2/7 and I haven’t put out the first Valentine item. Thanks for the inspiration.
Cute and festive!
I love the simply – quick and easy you share to change decorations around the house, keeping with the seasons! Fun!
All your Valentine decorations are obviously infectious! Looks like a few of us have been caught with the 14th now just a week away!!! I haven’t slept all night with my insomnia, but I’ll try to get my stash of red & pink goodies out later & display! Thanks Suzy for the great inspiration… ! kj
Love all the pink and red accents! Thanks for sharing at Dishing It & Digging It 🙂
I love how you can switch up the area based on holiday. So cool!!!
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